/lit/ - Literature

>"During a break in a weekend writer’s conference in Hawaii in 2004, David Foster Wallace was surfing with other conference attendees, when a small child was dragged under the waves and began to struggle to stay above surface. As his fellow authors rushed to help, Wallace held out an arm in front of them, stopping them and was reported saying by Jonathan Franzen, "The waves have claimed her, let her fight for her own life". The other novelists, dumbfounded, proceeded to watch her struggle until her body disappeared beneath the waves, lifeless. He was later spotted outside the child's house, making drowning gestures and thanking the family for their child's sacrifice to the great ocean."

>"Surely you jest, Michael Pemulis!"
BRAVO FOSTER

if he couldn't take it, what hope do any of us have?

Is /s4s/ the logical conclusion to literature?

>>8328270
he's fucking C U T E
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jesus, what happened?

The Soul Is not a Smithy

What is your favourite book? Mine is Endless Fun by Dane Forster Walden.

Pic related.

Once you're a dank meme all you can do is laugh

>>5782778
:(

What's with the random inserts in "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" about how miserable DFW is?

>>5721732
>he didn't get it

http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/how-many-these-young-adult-novels-have-you-read-1277

>“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of OJ Simpson. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 2pac, and he's done all right for himself.” - David Foster Wallace

Why aren't you a nerd yet, /lit/?

What do I have to read to understand what "the New Sincerity" is?

>>5392548
>>dfw cum

Does anybody else think DFW was kind of autistic?

December 2000. Santa Fe, NM; Sir Poutsalot.

Christ, this entire thread is a shitfest.

After modernism.

>>4483579

Surely you Jest.

I want to read something by David Foster Wallce; however I hestitate to start with the obvious choice Infinite Jest. I'm not patrician, so I fear not getting through it without being faimiliar with his style. Might it be a good option to so start e.g. with The Pale King or is that a bad idea?

>I love it when some pseudo-intellectual vocal minority tries to enforce its little uppity (and completely deluded) vision of what is literature and what /lit/ should be. Many tier charts suggest that /lit/ should be a very close circle of "patricians" (concept stolen from /mu/) collectively circle-jerking about Ulysses, Finnegans Wake and Infinite Jest. In reality, no one has ever read FW, maybe three people have read Ulysses and IJ is mainly used for trolling purposes. It's also funny to watch how /lit/ used to love ASOIAF back in the days and then started hating it with all its guts because it was adapted in a "popular" (!) TV show. Those who remember the shitfest that was early /lit/ (the same shitfest that made mods create an artificial rule 3 about Ayn Rand) can't and won't ever take /lit/ seriously.

What have we become?